Chocolate Show Me What You're Made Of

Mattie, Ellie, Jade, Ewan and Callum have been

on the trip of a lifetime, in Asia.

In three countries, they've tried to get on top of tough factory work...

-making trainers...

-Oh, can you throw my shoe?

..make-up...

..jeans...

I'm going to be demoted.

-..and canning tuna.

-SHE RETCHES

They've been shocked by how the workers live...

Stinks of sweat.

..and moved by the choices they are forced to make.

It's unbelievable a family should be split up like that.

Now it's the final leg of the journey for them.

Can they stay the course in their very last job?

He'll probably sack me.

I just don't really like the job.

Today, we moved from Sulawesi to Yogyakarta,

in another part of Indonesia.

Can they follow the rules in a chocolate factory?

You're not allowed to lick your fingers!

Be star pupils at an Indonesian school?

THEY LAUGH

And finally realise how good they have it at home?

If she had £10 a day, that would change her life...drastically.

'It's 8 AM, and we are up and ready for work alongside

'the rest of the city.'

To finish things off, I've brought our five to the historic city of Yogyakarta.

The next few days, we'll be learning how to make something

that every kid in the UK absolutely loves.

We're learning how to make chocolate.

Chocolate factory, we're going to a chocolate factory!

We are making chocolate bars at Chocolate Monggo.

They sell over one million bars every year

to the home and export market.

Indonesia is the world's third-largest producer

of cocoa beans,

and from bean to bar, it's all done by hand.

Their boss is factory owner Mr Thierry,

a master chocolate-maker from Belgium.

He takes chocolate very seriously.

Welcome to Monggo Chocolate Factory.

-Do you like chocolate?

-Yeah.

All of you? OK. OK. OK, great.

-We love chocolate.

-You love chocolate?

Yeah. It's the same for me, I'm also a chocolate lover.

-But I eat chocolate every day.

-Every day? Oh, wow!

Ooh.

You know to make chocolate, it seems to be...easy, huh?

But this is very long process.

It's kind of difficult to make.

So, actually, when we're going to go in the production...

there are some rules.

You must respect these rules, it's very important,

because we work with food...

so we have to wear special clothes when we go inside the production.

We cannot put the finger in the chocolate

and put in the mouth - this is not allowed!

-However tempting it might be.

-So are you ready to go for it? Yes?

-So ready!

-Just follow me.

-OK.

-We're going to go change clothes.

Thank you.

'Making chocolate is a lot less fun than eating it...

'and the first rule of all is hygiene.

'The kids must remove outdoor clothing and cover their hair

'and their face,

'then clean thoroughly in antibacterial hand-wash.'

I feel like something off Ratatouille.

For their first task, Mr Thierry is getting them

to make chocolate bars, which will be eaten by customers.

So, this is chocolate.

ALL: Ah!

OK, tiny pour. We pour inside the mould.

ALL: Aw!

They mustn't waste any of the precious chocolate,

fill it without bubbles, and not contaminate the batch.

You do it carefully, do not put chocolate everywhere.

If they succeed, they'll be promoted to a better job,

and if they fail, they'll be demoted.

You can go fast, you can go slow, the more

important is to have a good result.

Huh!

This isn't even fair!

It looks like it's going to be difficult to resist the chocolate.

Can't believe we're not allowed to eat it!

I know, that's the thing that sucks.

But I think this is absolutely the factory that they're all most

excited about, and the fact that they've been...

let loose in there with all this amazing chocolate,

I think they're really,

really struggling to remember this is a serious working environment.

'It's not long before the chocolate is going everywhere it shouldn't.'

Oh, no!

Scrape it off, quickly.

Oh, my gosh, it's on my toe! Argh!

Spilt it all over the floor, so my feet are really sticky now

and horrible.

'They seem to be revelling in the wasted chocolate.'

Ah, wow! I want this choc...

Huh?! Ewan!

'Then the cardinal rule of chocolate making is broken -

'they start to eat it.'

You can't even lick your finger, it's on my thumb!

Guys, it's on my fingers, that's not even fair.

Don't do it.

But I have to.

Just wipe it on the towel.

It's all good, it's all good.

Technically, I wouldn't be licking it

if it accidentally fell into my mouth.

Thierry very, very clearly stated that they weren't allowed to

eat the chocolate, and all I've seen is them filling their boots.

They're having an amazing time, but the reality is

these Indonesian workers, if they did that, they would be sacked.

Mattie and Ellie keep eating all the chocolate.

-We don't.

-I have not eaten any chocolate.

We aren't eating any.

That's a lie.

It's lovely.

'Their hands have contaminated the whole batch

'and Mr Thierry now can't sell any of it.'

This is really not allowed!

You are not allowed to lick your fingers.

'Mr Thierry stops the task.'

Any workers...if they eat the chocolate during...

the process, during their job,

they might risk their own job.

'With the task ended, I want to know why it's impossible for them

'to stop eating the chocolate.'

Can you literally not control yourselves?

-No.

-You two were so indiscreet.

Anyway, Mattie was going like this...

Scooping the chocolate out and throwing it down his throat,

I was like, "Right in front of Thierry!"

-Ellie!

-What?

-You've got to stop it!

Matt, can you stop winding me up?

I can't bear it! Stop it.

Be good, seriously, because I know it's fun here,

but you have to be serious.

This is Thierry's chocolate, and it's expensive.

Ellie, I'm going to get grey hair from you today.

I can actually feel the grey hairs growing.

If you stop eating the chocolate,

I'll buy you all a bar of chocolate...

-BOTH: Really?

-..at the end of tomorrow.

-Promise?

-I promise.

Just shake hands with me.

No! I don't want to shake hands!

'The kids might think it's all a game,

'but the whole batch is a write-off.

'Mr Thierry decides to split them up and put them on jobs

'which won't cost his company money.

'So, whilst Ellie and Callum are filling chocolate cases, Mattie and

'Jade are wrapping the bars and Ewan has been stuck with the washing up.'

I tried my hardest, and I don't think this is sort of fair that

I've been given this type of job.

But Mr Thierry, the boss, I can't argue with him, can I?

He'll probably sack me.

And Mattie and Jade are unhappy with putting the foil wrappers on.

I didn't think that the presentation of the foil had to be so spot on.

-I know.

-Is the chocolate hard?

Cos it's inside the wrapper, isn't it?

Everyone usually just rips the foil.

This is horrible... and I'm terrible at it.

So boring and these workers are sitting here in complete silence.

But Ellie has decided to concentrate

and is working like a seasoned professional alongside Callum.

I think it's actually quite easy.

Just getting the right amounts in, I think.

It is quite fun and I think

these people who work here do a really good job.

Ewan is now getting to grips with the washing up.

This is actually a pretty cool job.

But in wrapping, Mattie and Jade are getting more frustrated.

I actually can't do it.

-I've been trying.

-Look at this!

I've been trying really hard, but I just can't do it, it's too fiddly.

Yeah, you were improving, but you don't improve, any more.

It's getting worse.

Why is that?

Cos I just don't really like the job.

I'm a bit disappointed by your lack of motivation in this job.

Jade and Mattie seem to have hit a bit of a wall.

Even though they're coming towards the end of their trip here in Asia,

they don't seem to understand that in order to be successful here,

you have to be willing to take responsibility for your own actions

and your own life. So with everything said, I've arranged

for the two of them to go and meet someone who works here,

and hear how she's had to take responsibility for her life,

and how that's worked for her.

'22-year-old Friska has been working at the chocolate

'factory for four months.

'She lives five minutes away, around the corner.'

This is your bedroom?

It is weird, because my bedroom and yours are so different.

I've got pink, butterfly wallpaper...

and this is just bricks and cement...

and spider webs...and nails.

At home in England, 12-year-old Jade has everything her heart desires.

I have a MacBook Air, iPad 2, iPhone 3G, iPod Shuffle,

printer...disco...money, and my most treasured possession,

my TV bed.

I'd say that I was a spendaholic, definitely.

She tends to borrow them from us, and, obviously,

we never get it back.

I don't get pocket money, but when I see something, I just say,

"Oh, can I have this?" Then they give me money...

and I go out and buy it.

And when she goes shopping, money is no object.

If my mum treats me to a shop, I think I spend about £200.

But mum Kim hopes that Jade will learn the value of money

while she's away.

It will make her a better, bigger person when she comes back.

-Hopefully.

-SHE LAUGHS

She shares this with three other people, this room, and...

SHE SIGHS

..it must be so...squishy.

Friska lives in this one-bedroom house with her 14-year-old brother,

Hestu, her parents, her grandfather and her sister.

How much money do you earn a month at the chocolate factory,

and do you get any free chocolate?

TRANSLATION: I get 800,000 rupiah a month.

The first day of every month I get three different-flavour

chocolate bars.

So Friska gets about £53 a month.

That makes me feel like I spend ridiculous amounts of money...

and if she had £10 a day, that would change her life...drastically.

Yeah.

Hestu, do you get any pocket money?

TRANSLATION: I get 5,000 rupiah-pocket money every day.

5,000 rupiah is...30p in English money.

30 pence a day.

That wouldn't even buy you a bar of chocolate or...a bag of sweets.

How do you spend your pocket money?

TRANSLATION: I sometimes buy food with it.

I want to pay my own way to help my parents out.

My parents have to pay for me to go to school, and...

I don't really knuckle down that much.

I try hard...sometimes... well, I do try hard,

but I think I could do a lot better, but I just like to chat quite a lot.

School, in England, it really isn't important to me,

but, um, you have to pay for it out here, so...

I can't believe I'm saying this,

but it actually makes me appreciate school.

Over a kick about, Hestu invites Mattie

and Jade to visit his school the following day.

'In the centre of Yogyakarta, I've brought the other three kids

'to experience another side of Indonesian life.'

OK, guys, so the reason I've brought you here tonight

is because I wanted to show you something in this park.

So there's basically two huge, old banyan trees,

and the locals believe that if you blindfold yourself and walk through

these trees successfully, make a wish and then the wish comes true.

You fancy making a wish?

-Yeah, definitely.

-Good.

-On we go.

'The banyan trees are over 100 years old,

'and locals gather here at the weekends to make their own wishes.'

Think about everything you've seen over the past couple of weeks...

and what you want to change about yourself, your life at home

when you get back to the UK.

-Don't let me walk into anything.

-No, we wouldn't.

OK, Ellie, off you go.

I'm dizzy!

Remember, if you make it through, the wish comes true.

'They all do make it through the trees

'and let me in on how they hope this trip will change them.'

Callum, tell me what you wished for, and why.

Before I was doing this, I was constantly thinking,

"I'm going to wish for a successful career."

But...after this experience...

..I've sort of changed my wish, my main wish, and I

think what that is now is to sort of have a better work ethic in school.

Ewan, tell me what you wished for, and why.

Well, I wished for that my life would be sort of eternally happy,

and I wouldn't have to go through

the hardships that these workers we've seen and the people we've met

have gone through, and that I should be just grateful for what I've got.

And Ellie, tell me what it is that you wish for.

I wish that I could have...

a blank canvas in life...

..and restart everything

and redo everything.

I wished I could be a kid again.

I feel like I've grown up too fast...

..and there was no way of slowing it down.

Ellie, I feel like you've learnt

so much more than you even think you have on this trip.

If you'd have spoken to me the way you have just there, totally

mature, totally amazing, totally responsible, a couple of weeks ago,

I'd have probably fell on the floor and been like,

"Where's Ellie gone?!"

You've really, really learnt a lot from this experience.

Give us a cuddle.

'It's the morning of day two in Yogyakarta in Indonesia,

'and Jade, Mattie and I are off to Hestu's school,

'to compare it with theirs back home.

'It's an Islamic school, so Jade and I have to cover our heads.'

OK, so Jade and Mattie

are going to spend the morning in this class and see how they get on.

Yeah.

'First, they try to make sense of a science lesson.'

They're all just getting their heads down and working.

They're not, like, messing about like we do.

THUMPING

THEY LAUGH

Hm, maybe lessons here aren't that different.

This morning in the chocolate factory, Mr Thierry's not

letting the other three near any of the liquid chocolate.

He's given them one of the simplest tasks in an area

where they can't contaminate anything.

I'm very surprised that it's done by hand, very.

I did not think there were people sitting there, packing.

It's definitely a lot harder than it looks.

Like, I'm no good

at folding things like this, but this is really hard.

They've got 150 bars to wrap

and they are all still competing for a wage.

Not quite... I need to start that again.

Ewan is finding it particularly tough.

I'm really slowing down at the moment.

I can't do this!

Mr Thierry comes to check up on them.

So, how many... tablets did you wrap?

-14.

-14.

-14?

-16.

-16?

Oh, good.

-And you, Ewan?

-Six.

-Six?! Oh, dear.

You did not much - six tablets, and you also waste...

..four wrapping.

Sorry, but I have to move you to another part

of this department.

Ewan's sent to an even easier task in packing, to get him

to the end of the morning shift.

That job was too difficult for me.

It look, probably didn't look that hard, but it was...

I was really struggling.

I mean, I'm pretty good at Christmas wrapping,

but...he was right, I was wasting his paper.

But this is too boring, but it's fine.

It served me right.

'In the school, Jade and Mattie are off to do some more work,

'this time in English.'

-Come in, please. Hello. Good morning.

-Good morning.

Please say hello to your friends.

Hello.

The teacher, hasn't met English kids before

and is keen to find out what they think of school at home.

When you go to school, how do you feel?

I absolutely hate school.

Hate school?

In Indonesia, the student...is very happy come to school.

Education is very important for them.

They want to improve his or her life by studying at school.

-OK?

-Yeah.

And Jade, could you tell me about your school,

to my students, yeah?

Every year, my parents pay...

over £10,000...

..and I get quite good education.

Mm, OK. For her school,

her parents pay about

150 million rupiah.

THEY GASP

Wow! It's for one...one child.

In Indonesia, we need only £3 for one month.

'The difference in the amounts

'shocks both Jade and the English teacher.'

Er, I think...

..you should study hard, OK?

Yeah.

How are you feeling?

When she told the whole class that...how expensive my school was,

and they all were like, "Whoa!"

I felt a bit...embarrassed, in a way,

and it's just made me realise how much...

how hard I should be working and how much I do take advantage of it.

Jade, you should never feel embarrassed of where you

come from, or embarrassed of the fact that you go to private school.

You're lucky - you should appreciate how lucky you are.

Don't feel ashamed!

All you should think is, "Right, I'm in a really great situation.

"I'll take that and run with it, and I'll do my very, very best."

Yeah, now that

I realise how much effort my parents put in to paying the school fees,

when I get back to school I think

I'm going to make more of an effort...to get a better education.

'With the lesson over,

'Jade and Mattie head back to the factory to do some work.

'They've got one last chance to win a wage

'and to show Mr Thierry that they CAN take chocolate-making seriously.

'Mr Thierry is taking a gamble.

'He's given them liquid chocolate to work with again.

'This time with nuts in it.

'The same factory rules apply -

'strict hygiene, no wastage and no eating.'

Thierry said he wants you to try and do this in ten minutes,

but the most important thing is quality.

-We cannot waste any more of Thierry's products, yeah?

-Yes.

Three, two, one, go!

'There COULD be a turnaround!

'They are all quietly getting on with it.'

Ellie's just got her head down. She seems to be very quick and

she just has a natural flair, she has real ability in this factory.

It's all right. It's not as hard as I actually thought it would be

in the first place.

Mattie's very, very quick.

I don't know if he's as good as Ellie at the actual skill.

Think I'm doing quite well, I'm on my fourth.

Surprisingly, even Mattie isn't wasting it or eating it.

Callum, taking his time, but he's putting the right amount of nuts in.

Jade is incredibly messy.

Chocolate is absolutely going everywhere!

Literally every single thing she touches has got masses

and masses of chocolate all over it.

Yeah, I did make a mess of the fridges, I will admit that.

And Ewan, it's not going very well for Ewan.

He's had an absolute nightmare from the moment

he walked into this factory.

'But the attitude to work has changed in all of them.'

No-one's eaten the chocolate, which is a miracle in itself.

-Yes, yes!

-That's an achievement...

-Yes!

-..if nothing else.

Yeah, they're resisting.

They are not too dirty - there's nothing on the floor yet.

They're controlling much better.

-Yesterday, I looked down and there was chocolate puddles...

-Yes.

..all around them, I was thinking, "My God, Thierry's going to run out

"of chocolate at this rate.

"Indonesia's going to have no chocolate!"

This time, it's very good.

'They have applied themselves this afternoon...

'but have they done enough to match the standards

'of Indonesian workers, and get a wage from Mr Thierry?

'It's the moment of truth. Time to meet their boss in the boardroom.'

So we're going to give you some wages, chocolate wages, it's payday.

Your last wages from Indonesia.

Please may you let our five know how you think they've done on, overall.

I think everybody has done well, so, I will give you first,

to all of you, a certificate

-of the junior chocolatier at the Monggo Factory.

-Wooh!

-OK?

-That's so nice!

-THEY APPLAUD

-So, Ellie...

-Ellie, there is...

-Thank you.

-Callum.

-Thank you.

-Matthew.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

-Jade.

-Thank you.

-And Ewan.

-Thank you.

Congratulations.

They tried very hard and I think they have all...

all of them have shown their skills.

It was maybe a bit more difficult for Jade...

who put chocolate everywhere, on her body...

-She was like a chocolate statue at one point!

-Yeah!

-There was just chocolate everywhere.

-And on the fridges.

-Ewan, also, of course.

-Aw!

A bit confused with the movements, how to do things.

And Mattie. Mattie has skills, actually,

but...sometimes he's a bit giving too easily up. Things are not...

HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS

..like this... You have to fight to finish your dreams.

Mattie sometimes says to me, "I want to be an entrepreneur,

-"I want to have my own business."

-Mm-hm.

Mattie... the reality is you might as well

look at Thierry as someone who has achieved what it is that you

hope to achieve, and learn from what he's saying.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

And...two of you are coming up and...I consider are...

more skilled than the others,

so these two are...

Ellie and Callum.

So, congratulations. THEY CLAP

-There you go, Callum.

-Thank you.

-Well, done.

-Ellie.

-Thank you.

There's your wages.

'And Mr Thierry's got a treat for everyone as a parting gift -

'chocolate goodie bags.'

Can we say a massive, massive, massive "thank you" to Thierry?

THEY APPLAUD

When they left their parents in the UK three weeks ago,

they'd never seen the inside of a working factory...

I just don't have a clue.

..and done very little for anyone other than themselves.

I don't do any chores around the house,

apart from opening the curtains, and even my mum does that sometimes.

It took some time for them to understand what work means...

I would rather beg for money in the street

than work at one of these factories.

..listen to a boss...

My workers, they are waiting for you to work in the team!

We'll wait!

..and live as a worker without complaint.

I'm not going to have a shower in that bucket!

But now they are home in the UK, has this trip really changed them

for good?

It seems Jade's time in an Indonesian school has had an impact.

I'm really trying to knuckle down at school, and I think I've

become quite quiet and one of my teachers said I was more humble.

Jade's realised that Geoff and I

work a lot of hours to make sure that her

and her brothers had a good education,

so she's realised to appreciate it.

Cos I went to a Muslim school out there,

and they all appreciate school so much,

and they have fun, but they really, really, really work hard, because

getting an education out there is... their life kind of depends on it.

Mattie is helping at home

and spending more time with his mum and dad.

What I've learned from my time in Asia is that...family is

the most important thing in life.

I think Mattie saw a lot whilst he was out

in Southeast Asia. I think it's made him realise that,

actually, he's quite fortunate to have what he's got at home.

Over there, that's the only thing what keeps 'em living, family.

Ewan has realised how easy he has it at home.

Before I visited Asia, I thought I was a normal person,

living in a normal city in a normal house in a normal country.

That mask has sort of been lifted, and that, actually,

I was extremely privileged and I was the lucky one here.

When Ewan came back, the biggest impact was...

around the people that he met...

and the joy with which they just conducted their everyday life.

He was quite taken aback by...how happy people can be with so little.

Callum has stopped buying stuff for the sake of it.

Before I went to Asia, I was just thinking, "Clothes,

"clothes, clothes...and gadgets, gadgets, gadgets..."

Everything, I just wanted and I think now, "Would I need this?"

Well, I want it, but I don't NEED it.

And he's not so spoilt, he is more helpful, thoughtful...

and put other people first.

And Ellie has ditched the make-up, is helping round the house,

and has put her head down at school.

I'm definitely more grateful for everything I have.

I don't expect as much.

I don't have the urge to go shopping any more, unless I need something,

and my relationship with my mum is a lot better.

Before Ellie went away, I was really despairing of her, I was

really upset about it, actually, and I hoped that would change...

and it HAS changed, it has changed a lot better.

She's been a lot more thoughtful and considerate.

She seems far more relaxed, I think, in her own skin.

She's just far more... easy with herself.

The trip's definitely made me want to help others...

and do something good for other people.

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